Helene stands 5'6", weighs 135 pounds and typically wears some
variation of a business suit. Her skin is light brown and her eyes are
hazel. She is direct, although generally polite; the only thing that she
will not tolerate is someone who sniffles or coughs constantly.

Helene is a broker who had to flee her previous world when a
corporate war destroyed the brokerage she worked for; after jumping
several parsecs to avoid (non-existent) pursuit, she settled on her
current world and began setting up a new brokerage. She is currently
freelancing, and, as when she worked for her previous employer, is known
for helping out smaller traders; she does make sure that her good
friend, Cecil al-Hasan, gets what business she can give when he is
in-system. She's fairly experienced, having had several promotions in
her old brokerage, which asked her to relocate to a new office on a new
planet when it expanded.

Several years ago, before her move, a ring of smugglers within a
rival corporation approached her and attempted to persuade her to help
them join their ring and smuggle in a shipment of highly addictive, very
illegal drugs on-planet; she refused, and reported them to the
authorities. Two of them were caught, arrested and imprisoned, although
the rest of them escaped and vowed revenge.

Revenge would take time, however, and five years of good fortune led
her to forget her enemies—until one of the smugglers, who had risen to a
supervisory position within his corporation, managed to create a trade
war with Helene's old company. This war lasted several months, and
resulted in the bankruptcy of Helene's company.

Helene is now trying to rebuild, working with al-Hasan and several
tramp freighters, but is always looking out for new contacts within the
spacer community, which means that she is always ready to make a deal
with a spacer who seems down on his luck or in need of a contact on a
world.